Cara's just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college - which means not speaking to the dead, an ability she inherited from her grandmother. Ghosts are trouble, and Cara doesn't need to add their problems to her own. But then she stumbles upon the body of Zach - the super popular but very newly dead high school golden boy - in the woods, and guess what? He wants her to resurrect him. I loved the remote setting in Scotland. The events are fueled by a brutal winter storm, which worked to add a layer of creepiness on top of the weirdness that already existed in Amelia and Adam's relationship. Hi! Just finished listening to the Audiobook, and got hooked with the story and the plot. It mesmerized me that the letters were written by Robin, who I though once that she might be Adam’s mom, or Henry’s wife. Then when i progressed in the story i thought also that she could be October. It was a chilling surprise that it was the woman who wrote the letters. Although there are many questions that popped into our heads when we finished the book, the story had successfully intrigued my imagination and curiosity even after MOST of the events have been explained. Talk about unreliable narrators, what about Adam here. He is a workaholic, narcissistic, self centered man. Add to this his condition, “Prosopagnosia” “which is a neurological glitch which means that he cannot see distinguishing features on faces, including his own”. Adam is a screenwriter and a pretty successful one. His marriage is in shambles. Why anyone would want to be married to him is a mystery but apparently he is handsome and can be charming when he wants.

Three POVed narration of flawed, unreliable, cunning characters and those emotional, a little disturbing letters contains the ugly truth of a marriage’s anatomy are keeping you on the edge of your seats Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts – paper, cotton, pottery, tin – and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.Most of the book is spent in the minds of these three narrators with the exception of the descriptions of the snowstorm, the chapel, a graveyard and a tiny cottage. Gallery". World RPS society. 2005-11-13. Archived from the original on 2006-03-15 . Retrieved 2006-08-20. Adam & Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland and decide to use it to celebrate their anniversary. Adam is a screenwriter and a workaholic, which isn’t helping their marriage. Maybe a weekend away will be just what they need to repair their relationship. Adam suffers from prosopagnosia (face blindness), but in public his wife stays by his side and helps him out when someone they know approaches. Sometimes. She can be a little passive-aggressive. This feature adds a fun and unique element to the story.

This is the age old question, right? I ask this because my thoughts feel up in the air based off of both of these sides, and I know the answer will be different for many people. Sometimes, if a twist is wholly unexpected, it's enough for a reader to give the book high marks simply for blowing their mind. I've definitely done this before, but as I've read more psychological suspense and my tastes have been affected due to this, I've begun to find myself needing more of category one than the big twist. It's best to go into this book without knowing too much about it--just know that married couple Adam and Amelia Wright travel to remote Scotland because Amelia has won a trip in a raffle. Adam suffers from prosopagnosia, or face blindness. He's a screenwriter who adapts the work of others and longs to write something of his own. Once they arrive in Scotland, mysterious things begin to happen and secrets that both are hiding threaten to come to the surface. Players have developed numerous cultural and personal variations on the game, from simply playing the same game with different objects, to expanding into more weapons and rules, to giving their own name to the game in their national language.Books Paper Scissors is an independent bookshop in leafy South Belfast, near the Botanic Gardens, Queen’s University and the Ulster Museum.